The future is still grey. The policy of non-intervention has not relieved us, nor has it relieved other Powers lof the task of guar ing and defending. The ery China must work out her own salvation sounds disinterested, and has the attraction of calling for no further effort, but] what does it accompli does it lead in a China that displays no ability for the task? I doubt if events will not impel us to something] different.
The work of the peacemaker ha till to be done, and I still cling to the belief that it is withi the power of human ability to seck to call together the lenders of the moderates—the vast majority, as I firmly believe, of the people for the purpose of ce-operating
that country a Government by common cause of restoring to ict peace may be secured and the sinister forces which threaten her welfare defeated.
Mr. ¥, Anderson, seconding the motion for the formal adoption of the report and accounts, said would like to express the Associ tion's deep sympathy in the ordeal through which their fellow-countr; men and other residents in China were passing, and with their Chinese friends also. They had something] for whish to be thankful, i that the Government realized the danger of a great catastrophe befalling Shanghai in time to take effective steps by sending out adequate defence force. The Govern. ment acted with promptitude and dec jon just in time, and had stated that the advice of its representatives on the spot. To these also they were therefore under a debt of attitude for their courage and foresight.
Injustice of Hankow Agreement It was idle to pretend that they were satisfied with the terms of the Hankow Agreement. In his opi Britain would be justified in withdrawing from an agreement which most certainly doomed to be.a failure any case, "There was? no- right, ments would one day return to China; the time had not yet come, but it would come in the future.
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